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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Molly Keane | This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Leonora Carrington | The Debutante is set in an unnamed city on 1 May 1934. Its title character is an unnamed young woman who narrates in the first person and begins her narrative by announcing: When I was... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes the passage in Swift
's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects. Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley. title-page |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | Any relation to Jonathan Swift
's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry
(who herself... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns
; the second quotes Swift
denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constantia Grierson | Grierson wrote this for print, to celebrate her friendship with Barber, and to predict the latter's success. The version printed in the volume shows very careful revision since Grierson's draft copy, with a new, dignified... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her own title makes her own poem an answer to one of Swift
's most notorious productions. In a brilliant pastiche of his
own stylistic habits and his scatological gusto, Montagu represents him as an... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Elstob | Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE
's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Elstob | Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift
's views: he later adopted some of hers. Elstob, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities, edited by Charles Peake, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, p. i - v. iv-v Hughes, Shaun F. D. “The Anglo-Saxon Grammars of George Hickes and Elizabeth Elstob”. Anglo-Saxon Scholarship, the First Three Centuries, edited by Carl T. Berkhout and Milton McC. Gatch, G. K. Hall, pp. 119-47. 119-20 and n2 |
| Health | Delarivier Manley | DM
(who had been seriously ill the previous year) had a sore leg and dropsy (i.e. water retention); Swift
thought she cannot live long. Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press. 2: 474 |
| Friends, Associates | Delarivier Manley | DM
first met Jonathan Swift
. Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press. 1: 154 and n1 |
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